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How can laboratory research in cognitive and developmental psychology contribute to science education.(and vice versa)?

 

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  • Psychological investigations of scientific thinking in children (current section)
    • Paradigm
    • Findings
  • Tensions between
    • basic versus applied
    • engineering vs science
  • An example from my lab
  • Establishing a unique paradigm for Science Education